User's Manual

Chapter 16: Licensing
A license is a "right to use" granted by Avaya, that the customer purchases to enable the features on the
IP Deskphone. A license contains at least one entitlement and can contain more than one entitlement. A
license usually has an expiry date and is keyed for a specific license server.
An entitlement is the most basic component of a license and represents a single instance of a right to a
particular feature or capability. Entitlements are feature-related information passed to the server through
licenses. Entitlements are also known as tokens or keycodes.
On Avaya IP Deskphones, the licensing solution uses the Embedded Server Model. In this model, the
licensing server is embedded on the IP Deskphone and executes on the phone. There is a one—to—one
relationship between the license file and IP Deskphone. There are no multiple IP Deskphones per server
in the embedded server model; each IP Deskphone has its own embedded server. The IP Deskphone
does not have to connect to a remote server to obtain tokens; instead, it calls the license server locally
on the IP Deskphone. There are two modes of operation in this model.
• Node Locked Solution
• Network Locked Solution
In the Node Locked Solution within the embedded server model, the administrator obtains a license file
for each IP Deskphone, and the license file is installed onto the IP Deskphone through the provisioning
infrastructure.
For the Network Locked Solution within the embedded server model, the administrator obtains a generic
license file, and the license file is installed onto the IP Deskphones through the provisioning
infrastructure.
The Embedded Server Model does not provide the following capabilities:
• Grace period handling
• SSL communication with the IP Deskphone as the server is local to the phone
• Crediting or transfer of entitlements
• Web-based OAM interface. There is no OAM functionality to upload the license file to an IP
Deskphone.
Licensing framework supports two types of tokens.
1. Time Based Tokens — These tokens expire based on the expiry date associated with the key
code.
2. Standard tokens — The warranty date on these tokens is verified based on firmware build and
contract dates available from the IP Deskphone.
Important IP Deskphone licensing information is located in the Keycode Retrieval System (KRS) User
Guide. You must register for access to KRS.
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